yeah except the Bengals will score 30 in the 1st quarter, then play conservative "don't give up the big play" defense, and the texans will score 10 in the 4th to make it respectable as a result and give everyone hope that the garbage points aren't actually garbage points and mean something about the offense progressing... blah blah blah
LOL at the same posters who wanted Mercilus gone are now going crazy about how much better he is than Clowney. Mercilus has a game like this every year and then he might not have a sack for the next 5 games. Last year when he filled in for Clowney, he was not averaging 3 sacks a game. Good game by the secondary too. I guess addition by subtraction without Raheem Moore.
It's a combination of knee-jerk posters making knee-jerk posts and agenda posters doing whatever they can to whine about Clowney. It's pathetic, but we should be used to it by now.
Hoyer is on pace for 26 TD's compared to 6 INT's for the season. By far and away the best ratio ever for a Texans QB including Schaub. You can tell he's still not a great NFL qb, but you have to give it to O'Brien. He's able to get the most out of the bad QB's he's had to work with. Exception being Mallett of course, but his issues were mental more than anything.
Very similar to Fitz last year. What's shocking is that QBs play much worse in other systems, which makes you wonder how bad Mallet really is.
It's the truth. Hoyer makes a bad play and you jump in here as quickly as you can to point it out. At this point, you lost the Mallett/Hoyer debate, so just leave that topic alone.
And Bobby still has yet to admit he was wrong about Hoyer being the best option on the roster. We all realize he was wrong, and that his character (or characature) is most probably weak because he can't admit to being wrong.
Couple of things I noticed. I know we played a bad team, Merciless needs to start at OLB, and Clowney needs to be moved to DE. Clowney should have his hand in the dirt 100% of the time, it would help eliminate some of the chop blocks on him, since he is lower to the ground. Merciless playing at his correct position has flashed. Like I said it was solid win, but the Titans suck, so can't read much into it, but I think Clowney is playing out of position and forcing Merciless to play out of position as well.
Imagine that the Sunday Night Football game features two of the most exciting teams in the league, both being undefeated. The Broncos led by recently departed Texnas head coach and defensive coordinator Gary Kubiak and Wade Phillips, and the Packers have the only other head coach in team history on their bench - Defensive Coordinator Dom Capers. Packers have the best defense in the league, by the way. What does this say about the Texans? Anything? Does Bob McNair actually, deep down make good personnel decisions? Or is it just random coincidence?
I think the problem is that a typical 3-4 DE's main responsibility is to occupy multiple blockers so it's easier for the LBs to make plays. We've made an exception for JJ, though he gets double teamed anyway, because he's JJ. He's not trying to occupy blockers, he's trying to get the to the QB. And that's great, but that's not really how Romeo's 3-4 is designed. And that's why it's important for Wilfork and Crick to play their roles. You get the other DE trying to make plays like JJ and it's not going to work. Or you try to get Clowney to play Crick's role and you waste his talent because he's not trying to get to the QB. And Clowney is maybe 20-25 lbs. lighter than you'd want your 3-4 DE to be. I get what you're saying, but this isn't Wade's 3-4, where we blitz a lot and everybody just tries to get to the QB. Best solution may be to just give Whitney more blitz opportunities from the other OLB position. I'd rather see us move to a 4-3 and have Clowney and Watt as DEs. But I'm not sure how Whitney does as a 4-3 OLB. Maybe Watt as a DT with Clowney and Mercilus as DE?
Watching the game, I felt like was watching bad team vs bad team. Because of the weather, I decided to watch again and I felt a little better about both teams actually. I think the Titans defense is decent and our offense did fairly well against them aside from the first quarter. Their offense and our defense however were/are both bad. Our defense was/is slightly less bad so they looked decent. However any half decent offense will shred the current Texans defense. We'll beat bad teams, lose slightly more than win against average teams, and get absolutely destroyed by really good teams. So we're not good, not bad, just slightly below mediocre. YAY!!!
